UFO invades Bay Hill practice range

You couldn't blame the golfers on the range Tuesday at Bay Hill for not keeping their eyes on the ball. That's because a huge, somewhat scary-looking remote-controlled flying camera was zipping around over their heads.

The aerial camera is made by a company called HoverFly, and the Golf Channel is giving one a pretty good workout at the PGA Tour event closest to the Channel's headquarters in Orlando. This model is called the Erista, and it's designed for professional aerial cinematography and live streaming from the air.

The drone looks fairly menacing, but it's only outfitted with video gear and not nuclear-tipped cruise missiles or anything. Such things are fairly costly, so I presume its on-the-ground controller will work to keep the thing mostly over the heads of the players on the range.

After all, if they station it downrange at all, you just know know some players will take dead aim.